The P&E Readers Poll is always one of the highlights of the New Year season for me. The poll opened Christmas Eve and runs through January 14. Anyone can vote; one vote per category (if you vote for more than one book in the same category, the last vote is the ONLY one that counts).

This year, Hell’s Dodo is entered in both the Horror Novel and Science Fiction/Fantasy Novel categories. All four previous titles in the Waves of Darkness series have placed in the top ten in the Horror Novel category for their respective years. Please help Hell’s Dodo continue that trend, and don’t forget to vote for it in the Science Fiction/Fantasy Novel category as well.

Top ten placers do not receive any kind of monetary reward, just a nifty digital badge and bragging rights. (For a peek at what the badges look like, I’ve added them next to the cover art on the pages for Blood Curse, Demon Bayou, Silent Fathoms, and Black Venom.)

[Click on the picture to buy the book on Amazon, or if you prefer here is a link to Smashwords. Stephanie tells me it’s also available in the itunes store.]

Stephanie Osborn is best known for her Displaced Detective series, which used interdimensional travel to bring a variant of Sherlock Holmes from Victorian England to the present. Sherlock Holmes and the Mummy’s Curse is the first book in a new series, Gentleman Aegis, which follows Holmes prior to this insertion into the modern work, exposing him to new adventures with a scientific and mystical light.

The Mummy’s Curse is set early in Holmes’s detective career, and shortly after his meeting and beginning to room with Dr. John Watson. Holmes, not yet established as a consulting detective, is invited to join an archaeological expedition by an old college professor, and to bring Watson as the physician to the investigators.